background: expansion of bone marrow cavity and decreased cortical and trabecular bone tissues and osteoporosis are resulted from beta-thalassemia. the aim of this study was to assess bone mineral density (bmd) in patients with β thalassemia major and intermedia, and to determine their biochemical and hormonal profiles that may affect bmd. materials and methods: in a cross sectional study from ...

In this paper, uniform and variable edge microgeometry design inserts are utilised and tested for 3D turning process. In 3D tool engagement with workpiece, thickness of the chip varies from a maximum equal to the feed rate (at primary cutting edge) to a minimum on the tool’s corner radius (at trailing cutting edge). The ideal tool edge preparation should posses a variable configuration which ha...

The photothermal deflection technique is used to measure the thermal diffusivity of a metal+eramic composite. The present, as well as other data on composites are analyzed to estimate a value for the Kapitza radius, rk, which represents the effectivevalue of the thermal boundary resistance of heterointerfaces. Remarkably, the data from different metal+eramic composite materials lead to a simila...

The Lemaˆıtre and Schwarzschild analytical solutions for a relativistic spherical body of constant density are linked together through the use of the Weyl quadratic invariant. The critical radius for quasi-static gravita-tional collapse is shown to vary continuously from 9/8 of the Schwarzschild radius to the Schwarzschild radius itself while the internal pressures become locally anisotropic.

The covering radius R of a code is the maximal distance of any vector from the code. This work gives a number of new results concerning t[ n, k], the minimal covering radius of any binary code of length n and dimension k. For example r[ n, 41 and t [ n, 51 are determined exactly, and reasonably tight bounds on t[ n, k] are obtained for any k when n is large. These results are found by using sev...

  The problem of locating distribution centers (DCs) is one of the most important issues in design of supply chain. In previous researches on this problem, each DC could supply products for all of the customers. But in many real word problems, DCs can only supply products for customers who are in a certain distance from the facility, coverage radius. Thus, in this paper a multi-objective intege...

The standard radius of curvature at a point q(s) on a smooth curve can be defined as the limiting radius of circles through three points that all coalesce to q(s). In the study of ideal knot shapes it has recently proven useful to consider a global radius of curvature of the curve at q(s) defined as the smallest possible radius amongst all circles passing through this point and any two other po...